You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 440 Public Opinion
The campus network sales staff were not panicked when they saw that the other party had a large number of people. Several of them were part-time college students who were at the age of youth and passion. They immediately rebuked the other party with righteous words.

The two sides first exchanged heated verbal exchanges, then as the atmosphere developed, they began pushing and shoving, and soon a physical conflict broke out.

Seeing that we were outnumbered, several strong athletes covered the top student who was responsible for communication and ran away. We chased him for several hundred meters but failed to catch up.

Zhang Weiqiang was still very satisfied with the fighting ability of his old buddies, and decisively called back those who had chased out.

After all, their main business is door-to-door promotion, not some social organization. They just need to stop at the right time and drive away their competitors.

After giving some praise, we started to plan the responsibility area on site and coordinate the follow-up work.

While they were discussing this, reinforcements came from the campus network, and more than a dozen people rushed over aggressively.

After all, Zhang Weiqiang is an old veteran who has experienced many battles. When he saw this situation, he turned around and ran away.

However, he still underestimated the opponent's strength. He ran for two blocks and was as tired as a dog, but was still easily caught up by the two long-distance runners and pinned to the ground.

……

Thirty minutes later, Zhang Weiqiang, who had undergone plastic surgery, squatted in the police station with his teeth bared, and his speech was not clear when he called Shi Yuzhu for help.

"Hiss~ Mr. Shi~ Yes, we're in, everyone is here. The police said it was a mediation, hiss~ Damn, the young people nowadays are so ruthless." Zhang Weiqiang touched the corner of his mouth and gasped in pain.

Shi Yuzhu was speechless, but he didn't take it seriously.

When doing field sales, conflicts are inevitable, and being caught by the police is also commonplace. All you need to do is criticize, educate and fine.

All that's left is for both parties to mediate and pay some money to resolve the matter.

Zhang Weiqiang is also experienced. If they had not been caught together this time, he would have been the one to handle it.

Now that he was in jail, he could only call Shi Yuzhu and ask him to send someone to pay the money and pick him up.

"Are you okay?" Shi Yuzhu asked with concern, "Is everything serious?"

"I'm fine, hiss, I just got hit a few times, some flesh wounds." Zhang Weiqiang said, "But the people on the campus network are all very hot-tempered, a bunch of students have no moral principles."

"You are an old hand, how come you were caught in one fell swoop?" Shi Yuzhu teased, "I have sent a lawyer over, just wait."

After Zhang Weiqiang hung up the phone, he looked at the police and smiled, "We accept the mediation."

"Okay, wait a moment." The policeman said expressionlessly, then turned and walked out the door to report the situation to the police station chief.

The director is having a headache. It was originally a very ordinary dispute, but now something is wrong.

Normally, the leaders of both units would come to pick up the people, then mediate and sign, and then let them go.

Giant Network readily agreed to the adjustment, but Campus Network was in a stalemate and those people refused to accept the adjustment.

What's even more troublesome is that most of the other parties are college students who work part-time and are very stubborn.

"How are the injured students doing now?"

"They are being examined in the hospital. Xiao Wang is accompanying them with two auxiliary police officers." The police officer replied, "Two students are still lying down, complaining of headaches."

The director felt his head starting to hurt, and asked solemnly, "Have the campus network people arrived?"

"Here you are?"

"Have you called the schools of those students?" the director asked. "Notify the schools immediately."

"I've already notified them. Their counselors will probably be here soon."

"When they arrive, call both parties together to have a good talk and let them complete the mediation as soon as possible." The director frowned, "What kind of thing is this?"

……

The counselor quickly rushed to the hospital and went to see the students who were hospitalized first. He was relieved to find that they did not seem to be seriously injured.

"What happened? How did you get into a fight? I didn't expect Qiao Hui, who is usually quite honest, to learn how to fight so quickly."

A student wearing glasses said aggrievedly: "We were not fighting, we were acting in self-defense. We were working to earn money for our studies, and the other party rushed over to hit us, so we fought back."

"Don't tell me about self-defense." The counselor said coldly, "You are gang fighting! When we catch you all, you will behave yourself."

"I'm telling you, if you're detained, the school will punish you, and in serious cases, they'll expel you directly."

The students had little experience and were frightened, becoming uneasy.

"Hurry up, if there's nothing wrong, leave the hospital. I'll take you to the police station for both parties to sign the mediation agreement." The counselor said to himself, "Hurry up, why are you still dawdling?"

The counselor doesn’t care whether things are right or wrong. So what if it’s not the student’s fault? The biggest mistake is causing trouble.

It is better to have less trouble than more. If something happens, just suppress it quickly.

Talking about what is right and wrong is childish!

The counselor urged several students to quickly complete the discharge procedures. As he was speaking, several people holding cameras suddenly rushed into the ward.

"Hey, what are you doing?" The counselor frowned and asked, "Get out, this is a ward, not your home."

"We are reporters, we want to interview." The leader raised his camera.

The counselor hurriedly stepped forward to block the camera, "What are you interviewing? You are violating the privacy of our students. Get out! We don't accept interviews."

"Why are we not allowed to interview? We have freedom of the press!" the reporter shouted.

The counselor is not afraid. He doesn't care about press freedom.
All companies and organizations are afraid of reporters, except universities, because universities have huge network resources that other organizations do not have.

The better the university, the greater the energy.

The counselor was not afraid of the reporter at all and asked directly: "Which TV station or newspaper are you from? Who is your leader? Do you dare to tell me your name?"

The reporter, who was originally arrogant, immediately fell silent and began to be polite, "Teacher, we are just doing a casual interview, and we will report it objectively and fairly."

Is what I want objective and fair reporting?

I want no reports!

"No, we refuse to be interviewed." The counselor warned, "Don't write nonsense, I will remember you guys."

Before he could finish his words, several blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners rushed in with cameras in hand.

The counselor's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he was so panicked that his hands and feet went limp. He was stunned for a moment and even forgot to stop these foreign reporters. He let them rush to the bed and take pictures.

When several other domestic reporters saw this, they also followed suit.

The counselor was so anxious that he was jumping up and down, but there was nothing he could do. He could only report it to the school leaders immediately and ask for instructions on how to deal with it.

The school reacted very quickly, and several leaders led a team to the hospital immediately. They first enthusiastically expressed concern about the students' injuries and told them to take good care of themselves and not to worry, as the school would handle the rest.

Then he found the hospital leaders and asked them to use the best doctors and medicines to treat the students, and money was not a problem.

Next, the school leaders called domestic and foreign reporters to different rooms and began cordial and friendly exchanges.

The school leaders quickly reached an agreement with domestic reporters. The school emphasized that our students were complete victims, they had no problems, and it was all the other party's fault.

Our students are both excellent in character and academic performance. If they are beaten while working and studying, we must severely condemn the other party's brutal and violent behavior, and we will protect the students' rights and interests in accordance with the law.

……

Zhou Yuan personally went to the police station with his lawyer and readily expressed his willingness to cooperate in the mediation. The two sides quickly reached an agreement, and Zhang Weiqiang was too lazy to argue and quickly signed the compensation agreement, of course paying the money.

As soon as the two sides walked out of the police station, Zhang Weiqiang glanced at Zhou Yuan without saying anything.

Zhou Yuan walked over, stretched out his hand and shook it, "Manager Zhang, I didn't expect to meet you under such circumstances."

Zhang Weiqiang said indifferently: "The campus network is really a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers. We admit defeat this time."

"What do you mean by admitting defeat?" Zhou Yuan looked surprised. "It was clearly your fault. You tore down the posters and beat up our employees. Why do you act as if you were wronged?"

"From what Manager Zhang said, it seems like he is very dissatisfied. Then we have to talk it out."

Zhang Weiqiang was unwilling to engage in such verbal disputes. His face still hurt badly, especially when his muscles moved. "I'm not dissatisfied. You young people on the campus network have no moral principles and you attacked us old guys. We accept it."

"Manager Zhang, you are confusing right and wrong. This is entirely your fault. Our employees are all students who work and study. What can they do wrong?" Zhou Yuan retorted loudly in displeasure, "They just want to work and earn money. What's wrong with them?!"

"There are still several students lying in the hospital. We have been very tolerant by not holding you responsible. Please don't be shameless."

Zhang Weiqiang was furious. "What the hell are these students? They chased us and beat us up for several blocks. What kind of college students are they?!"

As the two were glaring at each other, a large group of reporters appeared from nowhere, holding cameras and taking pictures.

Zhang Weiqiang subconsciously covered his face, "What are you doing?"

"We are reporters from XX Daily!"

"We are from XX Weekly!"

"We are from Financial XX News!"

"Excuse me, did you participate in beating students?"

"Can you tell me what you think?"

Zhang Weiqiang panicked for a moment and immediately asked his employees to protect him. He squeezed out of the crowd, got into the car quickly and drove away in shame.

The next day, several newspapers reported the incident on page 2 or 3.

How Business Becomes Violent

"A company fought over a business dispute, leaving innocent students' blood on the streets"

"A ground-based sales team or a violent gang?"

Afterwards, waves of condemnation suddenly broke out in major forums on the Internet.

Several people, posing as classmates of the parties involved, described the entire incident in tears.

The article directly described the other party's sales staff as thugs from an illegal organization of some nature, who were extremely vicious and brutally beat the unarmed students.

Soon these articles aroused the indignation of the public, especially on the campus network, because everyone was a student and they shared the same hatred and cursed Giant Network harshly.

People already disliked this guy who changed his career from selling health supplements. Most of them had been disgusted by the brainwashing advertisements, so naturally they cursed him even more harshly.

And soon people started digging up their dark history, one after another coming out to expose the truth.

The more you dig into dark history, the more you will find out, not to mention that the other party cannot stand it.

……

"Snapped!"

Shi Yuzhu was so angry that he swept away everything on the table, and the precious tea set fell to the ground and shattered.

"Zhang Weiqiang, what on earth are you doing?!"

Zhang Weiqiang lowered his head, did not dare to say anything in argument, and just endured the scolding quietly.

He is the person in charge and naturally cannot escape responsibility, not to mention that he is still in a confused state.

"I asked you to lead the sales team, but how did you do it?" Shi Yuzhu roared. "You have been doing sales for many years, didn't you say you were experienced? How come something like this happened now?"

When Shi Yuzhu saw the article in the newspaper, it was like a basin of ice water was poured over his head, and his whole body went cold.

Because the health products issue was severely criticized by newspapers and media, he is still frightened.

After withdrawing from the fiercely competitive health care product market and preparing to change track again, I didn’t expect to suffer another setback just at the start.

Ding Qiang, who was standing next to him, quickly spoke up to persuade him, "Boss Shi, this is not entirely Manager Zhang's fault. He has been with you for so many years, he knows the seriousness of the situation. This was a complete accident."

"I don't care whether it's an accident or not. Public opinion has already risen!" Shi Yuzhu asked angrily, "What should we do now? Aren't you usually very talkative? Why are you silent again?"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Most of the people here came from the gaming industry. They had never seen such a scene before, and no one knew what to say.

Ding Qiang hesitated for a moment and said cautiously: "Now we should contact the newspaper immediately and suppress the news."

"Can you suppress it all?" Shi Yuzhu looked at Ding Qiang.

"We can suppress some of it," Ding Qiang replied. "Several newspapers have contacted us, and it's clear they want money. They just want to pay to report the article so that they won't publish it."

"Give them all!" Shi Yuzhu said without hesitation, "Feed them first and they will stop crying."

"Okay." Ding Qiang continued, "We need to communicate with the school as soon as possible and reach an agreement with the parties involved. I don't think the school wants this to get out of hand."

"Yeah." Shi Yuzhu nodded, his anger gradually subsided, and he quickly came to his senses, "Why did this matter become a fuss? This is not right, right? The school won't cause a fuss on its own, right?"

Zhang Weiqiang smiled bitterly, "Originally, there were a few reporters who went to interview, but they were blocked by the school. But we didn't expect that a few foreign reporters came, and the school couldn't control them anymore."

"Foreign journalists?" Shi Yuzhu was stunned again and said angrily, "It's none of their business!"

Ding Qiang quickly persuaded: "Mr. Shi, this should be an accident. Now that it has happened, there is no need to dwell on it."

"Let's suppress the news first. Don't worry about the few reports that have already been published. Things will calm down for a while and it will be over soon."

"But those rumors on the Internet are definitely the campus network taking advantage of the situation to add insult to injury. We need to stop them immediately. After all, we are in the online game business, and online public opinion will affect our marketing and promotion."

"Yes, yes, yes." Shi Yuzhu reacted and realized that the main battlefield of this matter was still on the Internet public opinion.

You can only admit defeat to the school, stand at attention and admit your mistake when being beaten.

He is the victim and he really can't afford to offend him.

The school put all the blame on him in order to shirk responsibility, and he could only smile and say that it was a good idea.

What made them most depressed was that one of the injured students was a student from Zhejiang University, and was his junior.

When he was communicating with the school teachers, he was treated with some sarcasm and was implied that he could be so cruel as to hurt his own junior.

Fortunately, the school does not want to cause any more trouble, and both sides hope that the matter will be over quickly, and the rest will be easy to handle.

The only headache is the online public opinion attacks. Now his reputation on the Internet is very bad.

Just as the promotion of "Zhengtu" began, it was hit hard by this incident, and all the early investment was wasted.

Shi Yuzhu was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, "Qin Shaoyan!"

(End of this chapter)